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Do you remember back when you first had this idea?

I have this strange compulsion that User:Paptilian/Official_State_of_Colorado,_U.S.A._Article_Project. means something important. Its still in my head all jumbled up, however, Out of Chaos, Order has been accomplished, to a degree that should you call your attention to the link you might choose to respond. You are being advised that I have dropped your name into the call for assembly and before it goes further (with your referenced) I felt the need for proper introduction. I am User:Paptilian, browser of anything Wiki Foundation, Commons, Data, not sure what all, and as such have requested the attention of the Foundation, my mind tells me this is That Big. For it reaches into the Governor's Office, not just Colorado, but the Secretary of State's office, and that all the way to the President's staff. Ok, admitted, I dream big and in color. But it's true. I leave you with the invitation to attend Roll Call. Yours, very respectfully, User:Paptilian. ps May I have an official user name (I forget what its called at this moment as a lot on my mind in happening. registered name. Paptilian (talk) 16:38, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

Paptilian, ....what in the what? Could you explain that in clear English? And also explain what your various user subpages are about? You do know that the state of Colorado already exists, yes? CaptainEek ⚓ 20:24, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

A submission request for a Draft of the Outline of Colorado for the improvement of the Outline of Colorado, which is requested on the Project page for WikiProject: Colorado has been requested at Misplaced Pages: Help Desk. I am presently awaiting answers from the desk. This post, answers you question, ....what in the What? I hope this explains my intent, for helping make Misplaced Pages a beautiful place to learn.Paptilian (talk) 17:12, 10 December 2020 (UTC) This issue has been resolved here.Paptilian (talk) 19:26, 10 December 2020 (UTC). Thank you.Paptilian (talk) 19:26, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

Cliche Thank You

Thank you for founding Misplaced Pages and making reliable, quality information available to so many who do not have the money to buy a full set of Encyclopedias! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jurysith (talk • contribs) 01:39, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

Tides Advocacy & WMF $8.7 million grant

According to the 2019-20 financial audit FAQ question 2.2.1, the WMF has provided an unconditional grant of $8.723 million to Tides Advocacy to launch the Wikimedia Knowledge Equity Fund. It is for the purpose to invest in new grant-making opportunities in support of groups that are advancing equitable, inclusive representation in free knowledge. Tides is a left-of-center $470 million revenue San Francisco-based grantmaker that operates as donor-advised fund, funneling money from anonymous donors to activist non-profits or political campaigns (sometimes called dark money due to lack of IRS oversight in DAFs). Tides is distinctively partisan because it donates to organizations like the Democratic Party ActBlue and People for the American Way. Indeed, the suborganization that will be used to launch the new fund, TidesAdvocacy.org, describes themselves as seasoned political advisors, financial experts and legal counselors, we know the rule book inside and out. With our infrastructure and ongoing support, our partners can hit the ground running with the right strategies for successful ballot, electoral and legislative campaigns. That sounds awfully unphilanthropic.

I'm aware it's been public knowledge for a few of years that the WMF has established an endowment at Tides, but this seems like a step further. Do you have any views on why does the WMF need Tides to run the Knowledge Equity Fund and why was Tides chosen? Is it not a problem to tie the WMF to a particular political grantmaking network? --Pudeo (talk) 15:21, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

This fund has nothing at all to do with whatever political advocacy Tides or any of their other customers may be doing. This explanation from Lisa Gruwell at the WMF explains it well. "We transferred the full amount for Annual Plan Grants (APG) for FY20-21 over to Tides to ensure that all funding for affiliates for this year was secured, regardless of how fundraising performed." We think a lot about safety for the movement, and this is part of that.--Jimbo Wales (talk) 18:01, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

Anyone with further questions, there are a lot of answers in that mailing list thread now. Lisa has explained quite clearly that this is a purely functional/administrative service of Tides, it does not give them any grant making decision authority at all. (This is what 'donor advised' means, fundamentally.)--Jimbo Wales (talk) 10:02, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

Almost 20 years and approaching one billion edits

Hello Mr. Wales, just curious, when you started Misplaced Pages did you ever think that it would become this big and so ubiquitous? Thanks, Thanoscar21_contribs 20:54, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

I always say that I'm a pathological optimist, so I thought it could be great. But I didn't really fully understand what it meant to be this big and so ubiquitous!--Jimbo Wales (talk) 21:29, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

Sorry, I meant that, now Siri, Bing, Google, and all other major search engines default to Misplaced Pages. People, in general, just default to Misplaced Pages when they have a question now (at least in my experience). Thanks, Thanoscar21_contribs 13:37, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

Something silly and inconsequential happened (URGENT!)

Essentially, there was some guy who was the caliph of some small sect of Islam, and Google's goofy auto-generated information boxes started pulling his name out (and citing the factoid to Misplaced Pages) when people were searching for the caliph of all Islam. The article got changed so that it'd stop doing this, but in the meantime, a few pissed-off people were making threads on the helpdesk, ANI, etc about it. Google seems to love distributing misinformation in general (not just with Misplaced Pages articles). Anyway, it's not a big deal, and you've probably heard about it already, but in case you didn't, now you do. Wow! In all seriousness, though, it might be condign for someone (not it!) to ask Google to quit making other people look stupid by lying about what's on their websites. jp×g 08:15, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

Der Grüne Wagen

Any opinions people on the notability of this Austrian theatre company? If you think it's not notable feel free to say so. It was relisted for deletion!† Encyclopædius 16:53, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

Encyclopædius, Not sure the benefit of canvassing here, nor do I imagine Jimbo will chime in about a random Austrian theatre company. For my two cents, I'd say that merely asserting notability without giving evidence is not notability at all. Saying that there is probably offline coverage in another language is not very helpful. There could be offline coverage about a lot of things. Who knows, I could be notable based on offline coverage nobody has found. But of the sources that have been found, PMC's analysis reveals they are mostly garbage. CaptainEek ⚓ 18:32, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

Not canvassing, simply looking for wider input on why we wouldn't include such an article. Aymatth2 is as baffled as myself. † Encyclopædius 20:15, 15 December 2020 (UTC)